]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Emilia Kledzik)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:27:20 +0000Slavic but not Russian: Invisible and Mutehttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=371%3Aslavic-but-not-russian-invisible-and-mute&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=371%3Aslavic-but-not-russian-invisible-and-mute&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThe paper argues that the non-Russian Slavic Studies at American universities exist only virtually. The number of non-Russian Slavic specialists is pitifully small and incommensurate with East Central Europe’s strategic location and cultural identity, while the generally accepted format of university hiring and firing perpetuates this state of affairs. Among characteristic instances is affirmative action concerning certain narrow areas of study, side by side with delayed action (or no action at all) in non-Germanic Central and Eastern European Studies; a pattern of not reviewing in professional journals books of key importance to non-Russian Slavic identity; and acceptance of erroneous presentation of facts in Russian sources concerning non-Russian Slavic history. The regularity with which these patterns of action or inaction occur calls for a review of relevant academic practices.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Ewa M. Thompson)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:31:17 +0000Kievan Rus’ between Eurasia and East-Central Europe. Russian Identity Narratives from West Viewpointhttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=372%3Aru-kijowska-midzy-eurazj-a-europ-rodko-wowschodni-rosyjskie-narracje-tosamociowe-z-zachodniego-punktu-widzenia&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=372%3Aru-kijowska-midzy-eurazj-a-europ-rodko-wowschodni-rosyjskie-narracje-tosamociowe-z-zachodniego-punktu-widzenia&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enAfter the annexation of the Crimea by Vladimir Putin’s Russia attempts at an ideological justification of Greater Russia’s role as a dominating power in Eastern Europe have acquired a new relevance. An important issue from this point of view is the relationship between Kievan Rus’ – traditionally considered the cradle of the [Russian civilization – and the Grand Principality of Moscow that replaced it after the Mongol incursions. Russian identity narratives usually marginalize the current status of (the) Ukraine and stress its peripherality in the “Russian world”. In order to achieve this they employ both theological, cultural and geopolitical arguments that sometimes appear to be at odds with each other. Moscow is both the center of the true (orthodox) Christian faith and the civilization of the Eurasian geopolitical space. In the latter case the Russian capital rules a multi-religious empire. Eurasian ideologues like L.N. Gumiliov and particularly Alexander Dugin reject alternative, “Western” interpretation of Russian (and Ukrainian) history by pointing out that there exists an unbridgeable gap between the Western and the Russian (or Eurasian) civilization. According to them, Western scholars can never grasp the specificity of the Russian (Eurasian) historical development. It could be argued that this argument for a relativism along civilizational lines diminishes the universal impact of Christianity which (that) in the Russian context loses much of its transcendent sense and becomes – instead – a cultural feature. On the other hand, though, the (half-conscious) culturalization of orthodox Christianity gives more weight to geopolitical arguments in favor of Moscow as the center of the Russian World (and Russia as the center of Eurasia). However, this does not mean that the pivotal role of Moscow as the residence of the All Russian Patriarchate, the “legitimate” successor to the ancient metropolis of Kievan Rus’, is not exploited, in order to discredit Ukraine’s ambitions of becoming an independent state.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Arent van Nieukerken)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:33:02 +0000Contemporary Discourse of Russian Neo-Eurasianism against Central-East Europehttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373%3Awspoczesny-dyskurs-neoeurazjatyzmu-rosyjskiego-wobec-europy-rodkowo-wschodniej&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373%3Awspoczesny-dyskurs-neoeurazjatyzmu-rosyjskiego-wobec-europy-rodkowo-wschodniej&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enIn my article I am analyzing and interpreting ideological foundations of contemporary Russian neo-Euroasianism. This movement is lead by Alexander Dugin – an important representative of Russian conservatism, whose political influences among circles of highest state authority have been growing lately. I focus mainly on Dugin's ideological discourse towards Central-Eastern Europe and on his interpretation of Russian-Ukrainian conflict. What he postulates, is to build an ideocratic orthodox-soviet state, which should include Ukraine and Central Europe. Dugin uses confrontational and excluding language, thus axiologically absolutizing perceived reality. I have extracted my methodological tools from writings of Victor Yerofeyev, especially his book “Akimudy”, and used them for interpreting and evaluating Dugin’s world organized by absurdity.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Marek Jedliński)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:34:29 +0000Postcolonial Critique, Literal Axiology, Serbian Literaturehttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=374%3Akrytyka-postkolonialna-literacka-aksjologia-literatura-serbska&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=374%3Akrytyka-postkolonialna-literacka-aksjologia-literatura-serbska&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThis work analyses the relationship between axiological setups of postcolonial critique and virtue criteria set up by modern literature. The essential thesis is that postcolonial studies criticize the virtue criteria of modern literature as politically repressive, while at the same time they themselves establish the criterion of political activism as a relevant criterion for valuing the worth of literary work. In conclusion of this work, the analysis is focused on the repercussions of this feature of postcolonial studies and their effect on modern Serbian literature and critique practice. Three conclusions are derived: 1. Serbian literature in order to be accepted within the domain of the postcolonial concept of literature has to become a hybrid literature, thus it has to denounce its national prefix 2. The postcolonial concept is going to initiate a thematic shift within Serbian literature to direction of thematic hybrid situation affirmation of Megalopolis by newcomers from the countryside 3. The concept of postcolonial literature is going to lead to ideology of literal critics via the phenomenon of critique inquisition: critique that derives from a priori moral inferiority of literal text.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Slobodan Vladusić)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:35:54 +0000The Contemporary Serbian Prose and Postcolonial Dilemmashttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=375%3Awspoczesna-proza-serbska-i-dylematy-postkolonializmu&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=375%3Awspoczesna-proza-serbska-i-dylematy-postkolonializmu&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThis paper presents a short panorama of Serbian literature of the last decade of the previous and the first decade of this century from the perspective of postcolonial theories. „The animal“ paradigm will serve as the formal construct, used in the present text for deliberations about forms of coexisting in contemporary Serbian literature of that which is personal, private, native, „domesticated“, which is associated with the demystification of great nationalist and capitalist narrative. The findings of theoreticians of postcolonialism are used as the methodological tool for the presentation of the strategy applied in employed reflection over global dilemmas of poetics and politics.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Igor Peršić)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:37:31 +0000Skvorca - Reading the Iconic layers of the (Re)construction: The Colony and its (Colonial?) Others in the Construct of "Austrian Bosnia" in The Bridge on Drina River by Ivo Andrićhttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=376%3Aodczytywanie-ironicznych-warstw-rekonstrukcji-kolonii-i-jej-kolonialnych-innych-w-konstrukcie-austriackiej-boni-w-mocie-nad-drin-ivo-andricia&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=376%3Aodczytywanie-ironicznych-warstw-rekonstrukcji-kolonii-i-jej-kolonialnych-innych-w-konstrukcie-austriackiej-boni-w-mocie-nad-drin-ivo-andricia&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThis text offers a reading of Ivo Andrić’s novel The Bridge on Drina River (1945) placing special emphasis on the economies of utterance and the (re)construction of story/myth produced from the position of various native informants at the level of authorial intent. It argues that the position of colonial subjects/objects in the novel, as uttered and emphasised by Andrić could best be read from a postcolonial perspective. That opens two possibilities of reading Andrić and South Slavic historical novels in general. The first one concerns the understanding of space of the South European narration/stereotyping as the space of imperial/colonial power games. The second one deals with consequences of that presumption and appropriation of historical realms that deal with the space of narration in connection with various latter naturalisation of the text(s). The emphasis is put on Andrić’s novel. However, this reading of the text’s constructions also opens the way of re-reading other “historical” novels and their ideological/political constructs in South Slavic and wider Central European/Eastern European context/discourse.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Boris Škvorc)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:38:57 +0000Women-Writer. Cyborg and Hybride Gender Utopia an Serbian Culture of XXI Centuryhttp://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=377%3Akobieta-pisarz-cyborg-i-utopia-hybrydycznej-pci-kulturowej-w-serbskiej-kulturze-xxi-wieku&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=377%3Akobieta-pisarz-cyborg-i-utopia-hybrydycznej-pci-kulturowej-w-serbskiej-kulturze-xxi-wieku&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThis paper analyses the status and place of the feminist and postmodern utopia of multiple identities in Serbian culture. Starting from a definition of cyborg as an utopian concept of the feminist thinking, given by Dona Haraway, the paper explores possible utopian aspects of the syntagma woman writer that are based on constant change of gender identities and roles that the syntagma implies. The figure of female authorship in the context of neo-conservative spirit of the Serbian cultural market in transition is more than ever connected to the understanding and evaluation of the traditional concept and quality of "the feminine". The figure of female authorship in Serbian culture is also based on flirting with different feminist strategies of representing, whether they ridicule or apparently support it. All this points to an urgent need of forming a serious stand about the studies of gender in this country and in the region.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Tatjana Rosić)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:40:09 +0000Women’s Narratives on the Great War in Serbian Popular Literature of the Interwar Period (Сase of Мilica Jakovljević – Мir Jаm)http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=378%3Akobiece-narracje-o-wielkiej-wojnie-w-serbskiej-literaturze-popularnej-okresu-midzywojennego-casus-ilicy-jakovljevi-ir-jm&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=en
http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=378%3Akobiece-narracje-o-wielkiej-wojnie-w-serbskiej-literaturze-popularnej-okresu-midzywojennego-casus-ilicy-jakovljevi-ir-jm&catid=55%3Aqporownaniaq-nr-16&Itemid=120&lang=enThe aim of this paper is to present women’s personal narratives which offer an alternative picture of the First World War in Serbian literature. Literary historians have not focused on this problem so far, whereas it would greatly enrich the literary representation of the Great War to add female perception and illustrate this historical cataclysm with women’s everyday war experience. The literary material analyzed here is the work by Milica Jakovljević (better known under the pseudonym Mir Jam), the author of popular literature in the interwar period. This paper contains an analysis of her three works, each belonging to a different genre: the drama Tamo daleko (‘There, Far Away’), the novel U slovenačkim gorama (‘In Slovenian Mountains’) and the autobiography Izdanci Šumadije (‘Offsprings of Šumadija’). The key categories applied in the discussion of Milica Jakovljević’s work are: women’s literature (women’s thematic and narrative perspective, women’s authorship and female recipient), popular literature/culture, microhistory and cultural memory.]]>emilka@amu.edu.pl (Magdalena Koch)"Porównania" nr 16Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:41:58 +0000